Folding box.



PATEN'I'ED MAY 26, 1903.

mm B D M FF APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES I Patented May 26, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. WADE, OF NATIONAL HOME, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE FOURTH TOCORNELIUS WHEELER, OF NATIONAL HOME, WISCONSIN.

FOLDING BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,025, dated May 26,1903.

Application filed August 6, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. WADE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of National Home, in the connty'of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FoldingBoxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof.

My invention has for its object the construction of folding boxes fromtwo strips of wood veneer or other material that can be scored and bent;and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combinationof parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with theaccompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are plan views of the said stripsin their original form, the lines of scoring being indicated by thetransverse dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the said stripsbent on the lines of scoring and in position to be nested together. Fig.4 is a sectional view of the bed and plunger of the forming-tool withthe nested strips in position on the bed and the plunger in raisedposition ready for the next operation. Fig. 5 is a like view with theends of one of the strips brought inward toward each other and folded bythe plunger, the latter being shown in its lowered position, completingthe formation of the box. Fig. 6 is a detail view of a portion of saidbox, showing the position the (inverted) box-bottom assumes when theplunger is again raised; and Fig. 7 is a perspective View of thefinished box in inverted position.

Referring by letters to the drawings, a represents the bed, and b theplunger, of a forming-machine, whose details I have not deemed necessaryto further show, as this constitutes no essential part of my invention.In Figs. 1 and 2 I show the two strips 0 (1, preferably of wood veneer,scored transversely, as indicated by the dotted lines, there beingdouble scoring on the strip d wherever the same has to fold over andinclose part of the stip c and the latter strip being formed withinterlocking ends e e. Everywhere I have shown the box and its parts ininverted position, (as it is thus made,) and when the strips have beenSerial No. 118,586. (No model.)

bent on the lines of scoring the strip a has its ends interlocked and isthen pushed down on the lines of the arrows in Fig. 3 and nested toplace in the other strip (1, whose central portion f forms the bottom ofthe box, and" the thus united bent strips are placed on the bed a andthe outer parts g g of the strip at brought inward (by hand or bysuitable tool, as preferred) till they touch the adjacent sides of thebent strip 0, (one of the parts g thus covering and protecting theinterlocked ends e e of said strip,) which brings the extreme bent endsit h of strip (1 inward, and then the plunger 1) is brought down, whichconcaves the bottom f and folds the strip ends h h down over the edgesof the adjacent sides of the strip 0, as shown in Fig. 5, and then asthe plunger b is again elevated the bottom f will spring upward andpartially straighten out, thereby serving to lock the just infolded endsit h to place, as indicated in Fig. 6, and the completed box, Fig. 7,may now be removed from the bed.

The box I have illustrated is of substan tially square shape withstraight sides and ends; but it will be understood that either the sidesor ends, or both, of the box may be flaring, or the box may be oblonginstead of square and of any desiredproportions, and the bottom may beset at any desired height in the box, as the strips and the bed andplunger of the forming-tool may be correspondingly varied according tothe size and style of box desired, but otherwise made precisely asherein shown and described.

While I prefer to interlock the ends of the strip 0, as shown anddescribed, I may, if desired, secure these ends together in any otherway, so long as I form said strip into an open frame guarded againstseparation in the finished box.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A folding box formed of a pair oftransversely scored and folded bentstrips, one of said strips being interlocked or secured together at itsends forming an open frame held against accidental separation by suchunion of the ends thereof, and the second strip being nested against the,said open frame, the

central portion of said second strip bearing against the opposed ends ofthe open frame forward of the first strip and constituting the caughtbetween the edges of said box-bottom and the said inner sides of saidframe ends.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I raised bottom of the box, andthe continuous have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in IS portionsof the said second strip next the centhe county of Milwaukee and Stateof Wister thereof extending up from said central or cousin, in thepresence of two witnesses. bottom portion against said frame ends andthence over and down against said frame ends, with the extreme ends ofsaid second strip extending upward on the inner side of said frame ends,beneath the box-bottom and FRANK M.- WADE.

Witnesses:

' H. G. UNDERWoon,

B. C. ROLOFF.

